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I'm looking for a word that describes a photo of food/meal that is included in a recipe but it is not a real photo of the food.
I found "illustrative photo" next to some pictures on reuters.com and Google nGrams says this collocation exits but COCA found only 1 hit.
You want a word that describes the food but it is not the real photo of that food. Do you mean that if the recipe is of making a 'cake' but you show a photo of some cake which is not the one that is the result of the recipe?
If yes, the word 'illustrative' is okay.
illustrative - serving to demonstrate
So, if you put an illustrative image/photo of a cake which is not the same as a result of that recipe but gives an idea how does it look, it's okay!
